John Woods Duke

(Cumberland, Md. 30/7/1899, Northampton, Massachusetts 26/10/1984)

TESTI DEI LIEDER

"A piper"
di Seumas O'Sullivan (1879-1958)

"An awful tempest mashed the air"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus soprano, piano)

"Bredon Hill"
da "In summertime on Bredon"
di Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936)

"Calvary"
di Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

"Capri"
da "When beauty grows too great to bear"
di Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
(opus medium or high voice, piano)

"Central Park at Dusk"
di Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
(opus medium voice, piano)

"Have you got a brook in your little heart"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus soprano, piano)

"Heart, we will forget him"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus soprano, piano)

"I taste a liquor never brewed"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus soprano, piano)

"I watched the Lady Caroline"
di Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

"Jabberwocky"
di Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

"Let down the bars"
da "Let down the bars, O Death"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus soprano, piano)

"Love and Friendship"
da "Love is like the wild rose-briar"
di Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
(opus medium voice, piano)

"Loveliest of trees"
di Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936)

"Luke Havergal"
di Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

"Miniver Cheevy"
di Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

"New feet within my garden go"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus soprano, piano)

"O it was out by Donnycarney"
da "O, it was out by Donnycarney"
di James Joyce (1882-1941)

"On the Moors"
da "High waving heather, beneath stormy blasts bending"
di Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
(opus medium voice, piano)

"Rapunzel"
di Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914)
(opus medium voice, piano)

"Richard Cory"
di Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

"Silver"
di Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)

"Sonnet XXIX"
da "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes"
di William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

"The Duchess' Lullaby"
da "Speak roughly to your little boy"
di Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

"The last word of a bluebird"
di Robert Frost (1874-1963)
(opus medium voice, piano)

"The little crocodile"
da "How doth the little crocodile"
di Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

"The Lobster Quadrille"
da "Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail"
di Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

"The Mock Turtle's Song"
da "Beautiful Soup, so rich and green"
di Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

"The rose did caper on her cheek"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
(opus soprano, piano)

"White in the moon the long road lies"
di Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936)

"Wild Swans"
da "I looked in my heart while the wild swans went over"
di Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
(opus medium voice, piano)

"Worlds of Light"
da "I'm happiest when most away"
di Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
(opus medium voice, piano)